Sustainable Building Materials for Enhancing Building Energy, Environment and Thermal Comfort Performance under Different Climates
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 2352
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building materials (lightweight concrete, phase change materials, insulation materials); building envelope design and retrofit; building services; energy modelling; building performance and simulation; life cycle cost analysis; life cycle assessment; greenhouse gas certification
Interests: digital construction; building information modelling; digital twin; construction management; building materials; building design and retrofit; energy rating; building performance and simulation; life cycle assessment; sustainable construction; sustainable building technology; life cycle cost analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Buildings account for one-third of energy use and a quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world. They are estimated to make up 24% of baseline energy use by the end of the 21st century due to unmitigated climate change. Building fabrics (wall, roof, and floor) are mainly responsible for 50–60% of heat transfer in buildings. However, lightweight construction materials are being developed to reduce heat transfer loss through building envelope, but they exacerbate summertime overheating under extreme heatwave periods. Summertime overheating enhances heat-related mortalities and morbidities in buildings. Therefore, there is a need to mitigate adverse health and environmental impacts in buildings by developing sustainable construction materials, designing energy-efficient design and retrofit strategies, and alternative passive measures.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to new research developments in sustainable construction materials, novel energy-efficient designs, environmentally and economically feasible retrofit and refurbishment strategies, and advanced passive measures for sustainable built environment deign under different climate conditions. This Special Issue welcomes submissions focused on the following topics:
- Lightweight construction materials (cementitious and geopolymer composites and carbon-negative concrete);
- Building insulation materials for heat resistive infrastructures;
- Phase change materials for heat resilient buildings;
- Reflective coating materials for mitigating indoor and outdoor thermal comfort;
- Recycled materials for sustainable buildings;
- Advanced coating materials for window glazing;
- Building envelope design (opaque and transparent);
- Building retrofit and refurbishment strategies;
- Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system design and analysis;
- Green building technologies;
- Energy analysis and thermal comfort assessment;
- Life cycle cost analysis;
- Life cycle assessment;
- Building information modelling;
- Climate change and extreme heat waves.
Dr. Dileep Kumar
Dr. Md Morshed Alam
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building materials
- lightweight concrete
- mortars and renders
- heat resilient buildings
- dynamic thermal simulation
- system design
- energy analysis
- life cycle cost analysis
- life cycle assessment
- sustainable built environment
- passive building
- net-zero emission buildings
- carbon-negative buildings
- building information modelling
- thermal comfort
- heat waves
- climate change
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